Tag: Conservation

African Bush Elephants (Loxodonta africana), Ambolesi National Park, KenyaAfrican Elephants are scattered throughout sub-Saharan Africa. They are the largest living terrestrial animals, male African elephants can reach a height of 4 m and weigh 7,000 kg. These animals have several distinctive ...

By Peter Prokosch

African Elephant herd, Amboseli National Park, KenyaAfrican Elephants are scattered throughout sub-Saharan Africa. They are the largest living terrestrial animals, male African elephants can reach a height of 4 m and weigh 7,000 kg. These animals have several distinctive ...

By Peter Prokosch

African Bush Elephants (Loxodonta africana), Ambolesi National Park, KenyaAfrican Elephants are scattered throughout sub-Saharan Africa. They are the largest living terrestrial animals, male African elephants can reach a height of 4 m and weigh 7,000 kg. These animals have several distinctive ...

By Peter Prokosch

African Bush Elephants (Loxodonta africana), Ambolesi National Park, KenyaAfrican Elephants are scattered throughout sub-Saharan Africa. They are the largest living terrestrial animals, male African elephants can reach a height of 4 m and weigh 7,000 kg. These animals have several distinctive ...

By Peter Prokosch

Old elephant eating after cleaned grass from dust, Amboseli National Park, KenyaElephants usually have 26 teeth: the incisors, known as the tusks, 12 deciduous premolars, and 12 molars. Unlike most mammals, which grow baby teeth and then replace them with a single permanent set of adult teeth, eleph...

By Peter Prokosch

Cattle invading Ambolesi National Park, KenyaIncreased pressure from its surroundings is threatening the Amboseli National Park, The park has been established in Kajiado District, Rift Valley Province in Kenya, and is 39,206 hectares (392 km2) in size at the core ...

By Peter Prokosch

Partnership of the Taimyrski Zapovednik with Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park, common exhibition in Khatanga, Taimyr, Russia, 1995As a follow-up of the German Russian Biological expeditions to Taimyr in 1989-1991, The Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park and the Taimyrski Reserve (Zapovednik) signed a partnership agreement.

By Peter Prokosch

At the entrance of the secretariat of the Great Arctic Reserve, Dudinka, Russia, 1993In the years 1989-1991 and within the former German-Soviet Environmental Agreement 3 biological expeditions to the Taimyr peninsular in northernmost Siberia were performed. They laid the ground for the establishment of t...

By Peter Prokosch

Knot (Calidris canutus canutus) with young, Sterlegova , 75.26N89.09E, Taimyr, Russia, July 1990The Red Knot breeding with six subspecies in the high Arctic tundra makes one of the longest migrations of any bird, traveling up to 16,000 km twice a year. The different knot populations are migrating in some of the lar...

By Peter Prokosch

One-day old Red Knots (Calidris canutus canutus), Sterlegova , 75.26N89.09E, Taimyr, Russia, July 1990The Red Knot breeding with six subspecies in the high Arctic tundra makes one of the longest migrations of any bird, traveling up to 16,000 km twice a year. The different knot populations are migrating in some of the lar...

By Peter Prokosch

Long-tailed Skua (Stercorarius longicaudus), Sterlegova, 75.26N89.09E, Coast of Taimyr, Russia, July 1990The long-tailed skua (Stercorarius longicaudus) is the smallest and most slender of the skuas. The long-tailed skua has a circumpolar distribution in Arctic regions.
Within the former German-Soviet Environmental Agre...

By Peter Prokosch

Leningradskaya River, Northern Taimyr, German-Sovjet Expedition, July 1990Within the former German-Soviet Environmental Agreement in the years 1989-1991 3 biological expeditions to the Taimyr peninsular in northernmost Siberia were performed. They laid the ground for the establishment (1993) o...

By Peter Prokosch

Polygone Tundra, Leningradskaya River, Northern Taimyr, German-Sovjet Expedition, July 1990Within the former German-Soviet Environmental Agreement in the years 1989-1991 3 biological expeditions to the Taimyr peninsular in northernmost Siberia were performed. They laid the ground for the establishment (1993) o...

By Peter Prokosch

Northern Taimyr, German-Sovjet Expedition, July 1990Within the former German-Soviet Environmental Agreement in the years 1989-1991 3 biological expeditions to the Taimyr peninsular in northernmost Siberia were performed. They laid the ground for the establishment (1993) o...

By Peter Prokosch

Polygone Tundra, Leningradskaya River, Northern Taimyr, German-Sovjet Expedition, July 1990Within the former German-Soviet Environmental Agreement in the years 1989-1991 3 biological expeditions to the Taimyr peninsular in northernmost Siberia were performed. They laid the ground for the establishment (1993) o...

By Peter Prokosch

Polygone Tundra, Leningradskaya River, Northern Taimyr, German-Sovjet Expedition, July 1990Within the former German-Soviet Environmental Agreement in the years 1989-1991 3 biological expeditions to the Taimyr peninsular in northernmost Siberia were performed. They laid the ground for the establishment (1993) o...

By Peter Prokosch

Leningradskaya River, Northern Taimyr, German-Sovjet Expedition, July 1990Within the former German-Soviet Environmental Agreement in the years 1989-1991 3 biological expeditions to the Taimyr peninsular in northernmost Siberia were performed. They laid the ground for the establishment (1993) o...

By Peter Prokosch

Tributary of the Leningradskaya River, Northern Taimyr, German-Sovjet Expedition, July 1990Within the former German-Soviet Environmental Agreement in the years 1989-1991 3 biological expeditions to the Taimyr peninsular in northernmost Siberia were performed. They laid the ground for the establishment (1993) o...

By Peter Prokosch

Leningradskaya River, Northern Taimyr, German-Sovjet Expedition, July 1990Within the former German-Soviet Environmental Agreement in the years 1989-1991 3 biological expeditions to the Taimyr peninsular in northernmost Siberia were performed. They laid the ground for the establishment (1993) o...

By Peter Prokosch

Tributary of the Leningradskaya River, Northern Taimyr, German-Sovjet Expedition, July 1990Within the former German-Soviet Environmental Agreement in the years 1989-1991 3 biological expeditions to the Taimyr peninsular in northernmost Siberia were performed. They laid the ground for the establishment (1993) o...

By Peter Prokosch

Tributary of the Leningradskaya River, Northern Taimyr, German-Sovjet Expedition, July 1990Within the former German-Soviet Environmental Agreement in the years 1989-1991 3 biological expeditions to the Taimyr peninsular in northernmost Siberia were performed. They laid the ground for the establishment (1993) o...